Tax returns refute Obama being unaware of Wright statements

In his much-ballyhooed speech March 18, Barack Obama again repeated the idea that he was not aware of many of Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s comments. (For the sake of a clean thread on this post, we’ll ignore that Wright’s philosophy, beyond any individual comments, seem to be what attracted Obama to Wright when Obama was still at Harvard Divinity School.)

Well, Obama’s tax returns would seem to refute the idea that he was an unaware member of Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ.

Re Obama’s relations with Wright, Bloomberg unearths a tidbit about Obama’s financial support for Wright and Trinity UCC.

Obama gave the church $22,500 in 2006, according to tax returns. That certainly doesn’t sound like someone unaware of what his pastor was saying.

Obama’s 2007 tax return is here (PDF).